Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Criterion Collection)

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Japanese music star Ryuichi Sakamoto is a prisoner-of-war camp commandant who is as turned on by rock icon David Bowie's defiant POW as he is determined to stamp out his insolence in the homoerotic World War II melodrama "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Blu-ray)" (1983). Bowie's internment in the camp upsets the order of things as Sakamoto's conflicted feelings create a powder keg atmosphere the POW leader Tom Conti tries desperately to defuse. This Criterion Collection disc includes a vintage 30-minutes featurette, a featurette on Sakamoto's film score, two documentaries, an interview with co-screenwriter Paul Mayersberg and a booklet.

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Japanese music star Ryuichi Sakamoto is a prisoner-of-war camp commandant who is as turned on by rock icon David Bowie's defiant POW as he is determined to stamp out his insolence in the homoerotic World War II melodrama "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence (Blu-ray)" (1983). Bowie's internment in the camp upsets the order of things as Sakamoto's conflicted feelings create a powder keg atmosphere the POW leader Tom Conti tries desperately to defuse. This Criterion Collection disc includes a vintage 30-minutes featurette, a featurette on Sakamoto's film score, two documentaries, an interview with co-screenwriter Paul Mayersberg and a booklet.